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{{Quote|{{Quran|51|48}}|And the earth, We have spread it; how excellent (are) the Spreaders!}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|51|48}}|And the earth, We have spread it; how excellent (are) the Spreaders!}} | ||
====Earth is | ====Earth is a Bed==== | ||
The earth is described like a carpet | The earth is described like a bed (or carpet in Yusuf Ali's translation). Such a word suggests something completely flat and spread out on the ground and not rolled up for storage. The same Arabic word is used in the 3 verses below. | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|20|53}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|20|53}}| | ||
Who hath appointed the earth '''as a bed''' and hath threaded roads for you therein and hath sent down water from the sky and thereby We have brought forth divers kinds of vegetation}} | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|43|10}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|43|10}}| | ||
[The one] who has made for you the earth '''a bed''' and made for you upon it roads that you might be guided}} | |||
Sometimes the word expanse is translated as bed in this verse too (it is the same Arabic word as the other two verses above). | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|78|6}}|Have We not made the earth '''an expanse'''}} | |||
The same root word is used as a verb at the end of 51.48 | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|78|6}}|And the earth, We have spread it; how excellent (are) '''the Spreaders!'''}} | |||
====Earth is a Wide Plain==== | ====Earth is a Wide Plain==== | ||